Fender



Patented January 19, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE PARISIEN AND JOSEPH H. GINGRAS, OF FALL RIVER, MASSA- CHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO OSCAR BOUSQUET, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,878, dated January 19, 1904.

Application led September 5, 1903. Serial No. 172,092. (No model.)`

T0 a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE PARISIEN, a citizen of the United States, and JOSEPH H. GINGRAs, a subject of the King of Great Britain, both residing at Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements' in Fenders, of which the following 1s a specilication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to automatically-operated fenders for electric and other cars, and has for its objects the ends commonly sought by such mechanism, but more particularly to provide means for retaining the fender constantly over the track intended to be traversed by the car upon curves.

A further object is to furnish means for lowering the fender to a level with the track when the former contacts with an obstruction and adjust the fender beneath the car.

To the above ends our invention consists in the novel construction andV combination of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of one end of' a car provided Withour improved fender; Fig. 2, a horizontal sectional view of the same, taken on line m of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a section of a portion of the slide and connected parts, taken on line g/ y of Fig. 1.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts throughout the views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the platform of a car, and 2 one of the trucks supporting the same. The truck is provided with a forwardly-projecting arm 3, upon the end of which is journaled a gear 4, disposed between and meshing with two segmental rack bars or plates 5 and 6. The upper bai` 5 is secured to the under side of `the platform 1, and the lower bar 6 is slidably mounted between curved or segmental plates 7, depending from either side of the rack-bar 5. The gear 4 may be of any desired construction; but is preferably a disk provided with radially-projecting studs or pins 9, which engage a series of apertures or recesses 8 in bars 5 and 6. The inner depending plate 7 is provided with a slot 10 to allow free lateral movement of the arm 3 therethrough whenever the truck swings,'in which event the gear 4 will travel in one direction upon the upper rackbar 5 and simultaneously move the lower rackbar 6 in the opposite direction. Y

The lower bar 6 is secured to aguidc-frame 11, in which a fender-supporting frame comprising three longitudinally-disposed bars 12 is slidably mounted. The outer iends of these bars are formed with angularly-bentv socket portions 13 and hook portions 14, while the inner end of the central bar 12 is provided with rack-teeth 15, which mesh with a spurgear 16, mounted upon a stud 17 Ain bracket 34, projecting from the guide-frame 11. The stud 17 also carries a bevel-gear 18, secured to spur-gear 16, engaging a gear 19, which is iixed upon the inner extremity of a shaft 20, longitudinally mounted in the guide-frame 11. The outer extremity of shaft 2() carries a bevel-gear 21, which meshes with a gear 22 upon the lower end of a shaft 23, vertically mounted in a bracket 24, fixed to the lower side of thecar-floor 1. of shaft 23 is rectangular to it the socket of a detachable crank-handle 25 and terminates immediately beneath an opening 26 in the floor, which is closed by the door 27. By applying the crank-handle 25 to the shaft 23 and rotating the same the fendersupporting frame is through the described intermediate gearing advanced or retracted in relation to the car.

The fender consists of a rectangular frame 28, in the forward end of which is journaled a roller 29, carrying upon its extremities supporting-wheels 30. The rear end of the frame is provided with two cross-bars 31 and 32, the former engaging the hooks 14 and the latter the under sides of the bars 12 at the rear of the socket portions 13 in order to support the fender-frame inV its elevated position above the track-rails 33. An impact upon the forward end of the fender forces the frame rear- The upper extremity wardly, and the cross-bar 3l drops into the sockets 13, thus lowering the fender upon the track, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. In a mechanism of the class described, the combination with the floor of a car of a truck, an arm upon the truck, a gear upon the arm, a guide-frame mounted beneath the floor and laterally impelled by the arm, a sliding plate upon the guide-frame and meshing with the gear, a supporting frame mounted in the guide-frame, and a fender mounted in the supporting-frame.

2. In amechanism of the class described, the combination with the oor of a car of a truck, an armupon the truck, a laterally-slidable plate mounted beneath the ioor, means upon the arm for actuating the slidable plate, a frame xed to the slidable plate, a fender, and means connecting the frame and fender for supporting said fender.

3. In a mechanism of the class described,the combination with the fender of supports engaging the fender, a truck, an arm upon the truck, and means upon the arm for changing the direction of the supports.

4. In a mechanism of the class described,the combination with a car-ioor of supports ldepending from the floor, a guide-frame suspended by the supports, a supporting-frame slidably mounted in the guide-frame, rackteeth in the guide-frame, a pinion meshing with theI rack-teeth, a rotatable shaft supported from the car-Hoor, a gear upon said shaft, and gearing intermediate and connecting said gear and pinion.

5. In a mechanism of the class described,the combination with a fender-frame of a roller mounted upon the forward portion of the frame, wheels upon the extremities of the rollers, a supporting-frame and means upon the rear of said fender-frame for engaging the supporting-frame.

6. In a mechanism ofthe class described, the combination with a supporting-frame of a fender-frame and transverse bars in the fenderframe frictionally engaging the supportingframe. I

7. In a mechanism of the class described,the combination with a supporting-frame of hooks upon the forward extremity of said frame, sockets in theframe adjacent and below thc hooks, a fender, a bar in the fender resting in said hooks, and a second bar in the fender contacting the lower surface of the supporting-frame.

In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE PARISIEN. JOSEPH H. GINGRAS. Witnesses:

' HoRA'rIo E. BELLows,

WVILLIAM E. BROWN. 

